This work endeavours to study the course taken by Gregorio Marañón in the academic world and, especially, his thoughts on the University of his time ?thoughts that, fundamentally, developed during the First Franco Years and speak to the University
of that period?. It thus analyzes his participation in some of the principal academic debates of the time, as well as the various influences his thoughts about the academy received. Marañón advocated the creation of a university spirit, which sprung from his analysis of the main defíciencies suffered by the academy. Marañón participated in the intellectual movement that, tried to recover the liberal Spanish tradition that had been cut short with the coming to
power of General Franco after the civil war.